Tymnes (poet)

Tymnes (Greek: Τύμνης) was an epigrammatic poet, whose epigrams were included in the Garland of Meleager, but respecting whose exact date we have no further evidence; for the grounds on which Reiske supposes that he was a Cretan, and that he was contemporary with Meleager, are very slight.Philip Smith, "Tymnes", in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3 (1864), p. 1195. There are seven of his epigrams in the Greek Anthology.Brunck, Analecta, vol. i. p. 505; Jacobs, Anthologia Graeca, vol. i. p. 256, vol. xiii. p. 963; Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, vol. iv. pp. 498, 499.

Namesake Tymnes occurs, as a Carian name, in Herodotus.Herodotus, Histories, 5.37, 7.98.

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